Posts Tagged ‘ Bombay ’

Delhi-Bombay-Delhii: that is to say: My Migrant Soulii

I always used to jump into the Bombay vs. Delhi debateiii with alacrity because I stood on no firm ground – my mother is from Bombay, my father from Delhi, which makes me from both places. And yet their families hadn’t “always” lived there – there were no ancestral homes to speak of, redolent of [...]


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Mumbainaama - Telephoto Mode

1987. Bombay. Monsoon.
Drenched, three-fourth of me dangling out of a packed local train, I was in ‘telephoto’ mode. That is, consciously being unaware of fellow ‘danglers ‘sticking to me, guard dropped against potential pickpockets and ‘gropers’, the world zipping by outside in ‘out focus’, something like that!
I was quiet enjoying fat raindrops lashing against my [...]


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